Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-02
Platt and Depew aud the corporations

into practical policy of that party and
found on every page of its history, finds
permanent and enduring form in the record
which it left in the Senate during the past
session of Congress on the Beck Attorney
bill"
With this record one need not wonder
at its great desire, in this State to bring the
railroad which winds its serpentine ways
through our mountain passes, within the
octopus OF its political greed and calcula-
tion; and if men of less business sagacity
than Mr.. Clements and his associates were
in control Of the destinies of this road, de-
signing politicians might have better pros
poets OF turning it from its natural chan
nei. How anxious they ale to this end the
past has fully demonstrated. 1t will be
remembered that in the campaign of 1884
when the Republican machine was
being put in order to carry
the State for Blaine with
the force of a tornado! Mr.. Arthur Sinsef
(au estimable gentleman, barring his poll
tics) was placed on the State Executive
Committee over Sam Mccormick, the old
secretary, for the reason specially urged in
his favor that he was Road Master of this
end U'tne B. & o. road, and as such could
WELD a potential influence over the men
directly under his control. Mr.. Sinsel
still holds that official place in the conn
ellis of his party, is still trusted official of
of the B. x o. road and yet no one has heard
him complain of being made uncomfOrta-
bic by Mr.. Clements by reason of either
his principles or the interest he takes in
support Of them.
A RECENT ILLUSTRATION
of the absolute falsity of the charge against
Mr.. Clements, contemporaneous with Dun
laps removal is the appointment of o. A.
Amman, agent at Clarksburg, to one of the
best of the second class places in the line
of the service. Mr.. AMMAN is Republi-
can and was appointed to the place over
the application of one of the truest Demo-
Gratis born, since the death Of Andrew
Jackson.
These are but 4 few Of the many illus
trations which could be presented to show
that the Clements management of the Il.
& q. Railroad, has been for the benefit Of
the owners of the road, his employers, the
men who risked their money years ago in
an enterprise (then deemed extra hazard
Ous) which has made our State the gate
way both to the Seaboard and the great
West, and the most recent evidence OF the
Managers ability to take care of the great
interests intrusted to him, is found in the
removal of Dunlap and the selection OF
Captain |. Frank Legge, u gentleman who
has demonstrated his capacity for public
place and confidence by the splendid re-
cord he has made in the railroad world
during an apprenticeship Of twenty-five
years.
1t may he well enough for the Demo
Gratis Of the Senate to understand the ami
mus of these charges against Mr.. Cem-
ents, for they are part of well concert
ed plan to neutralize the influence of our
leading Democratic factors by the cry of
Rail Roads" and Monopoly" the
complaint being prompted by the fact that
they cannot control the one or completely
absorb the other. Their old battle cry of
STANDARD OIL" has had its day, and is
put away with the battle flags as relic of
the past-rXhibited only to the admiring
brethren ~ au evidence of what it has
done.
THEY MUST HAVE \ NEW SHIBBOLETH
10 create fresh rend in the Democratic
fold, ~ they have abandoned all hope Of
tanning the dead embers Of past party
rancOr into flame, and this attack upon
Mr.. Clements is the first step in the pro-
gramme. They care nothing for Dunlap,
for they used him in the hey day of his
meteOric success, and are now only using
his grievance for their own political pur-
pOses-as a means to an end. If they were
honest they could find ample cause
for the appointment of new Superinten-
dent in many elements of dissatisfaction,
without attempting to cover up the short
cOmings within the narrow range OF p0liti-
cal consideration. If they are ignorant
and want cause for his removal let them
ask the engineer and trainmen on each
Division CenteriDg here who. at the verge OF
rebellion, petitiOned for his removal; let
them ask the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers who demanded new Superin-
tendent, and finally let the politicians ask
Arthur Sinsel and John Bradshaw (the
latter the trusted friend of the elder Gar
ret)-gentlemen whose RepubliCanism can
be doubted by no man.
These irresponsible attacks on Mt. Gle
ments are rs unfair as they are unjust, un-
manly and untrue. That gentleman is a
distinguished citizen of this State-resi-
ding within our borders and a part of
us for veal or for wOe-laithful TO our
constitution and our laws, bearing willing
ly his part of our public burdens-cer-
tainly paying more money for the support
of our institutions than those who revile
him. And because he exercises the rights
of American citizenship-the exalted pri-
yileges of q freeman he is attacked
through the public journals by such an-
onymOus characters as "N. y. H., simply
BECAUSE THEY CANNOT USE HIM.
If by such means they expect TO deter that
man from the exercise of any right which
his God or his country has given him, they
mistake the metal with which they are
dealing, for, borrowing the simile from a
distinguished source,
Like Alpine's oak, on Alpine's peak,
amid Alpine's storm
THE stronger she blows
The hrmer she roots him.